A Companion to Tudor BritainRobert Tittler, Norman L. Jones A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles.
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... fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and is editor of The English Experience in France, c. 1450-1558. He has co—authored, with Steven Gunn and Hans Cool, a major comparative study Politics (1990), Prayer, Despair, and Drama ...
... fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries and is editor of The English Experience in France, c. 1450-1558. He has co—authored, with Steven Gunn and Hans Cool, a major comparative study Politics (1990), Prayer, Despair, and Drama ...
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... fifteenth-century diplomacy and politics. He had studied the kingship of the French kings at first hand. His models were, therefore, continental: one commentator would later observe that he 'would like to govern in the French fashion ...
... fifteenth-century diplomacy and politics. He had studied the kingship of the French kings at first hand. His models were, therefore, continental: one commentator would later observe that he 'would like to govern in the French fashion ...
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... fifteenth century as the acid test of the success of any reign. Studying Henry VII by this criterion one can judge the novelty of his reign and his success in establishing the Tudor dynasty. Historians who study Henry's reign in these ...
... fifteenth century as the acid test of the success of any reign. Studying Henry VII by this criterion one can judge the novelty of his reign and his success in establishing the Tudor dynasty. Historians who study Henry's reign in these ...
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... fifteenth-century political commentator Sir Iohn Fortescue noted: 'the myght off the lande, aftir the myght off the grete lordes theroff stondith most in the kynges officers. Ffor thai mowe best rule the contreis wher as ther offices ...
... fifteenth-century political commentator Sir Iohn Fortescue noted: 'the myght off the lande, aftir the myght off the grete lordes theroff stondith most in the kynges officers. Ffor thai mowe best rule the contreis wher as ther offices ...
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... fifteenth century had taken advantage of the protection of their lords for their own good, and this explains partly the unrest in some areas that has triggered recent scholarly criticism of Henry's policies. William Sandes in Hampshire ...
... fifteenth century had taken advantage of the protection of their lords for their own good, and this explains partly the unrest in some areas that has triggered recent scholarly criticism of Henry's policies. William Sandes in Hampshire ...
Contents
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Part II Belief | 201 |
Part III People and Groups | 307 |
Part IV Culture | 401 |
Bibliography | 526 |
Index | 563 |
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